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The Dr. John T. Harrington Endowed Fund was created in 2006. It was established by charitable gifts to Tufts Medical Center in honor of Dr. Harrington’s 70th birthday. Through his outstanding career, Dr. Harrington, Dean Emeritus at TUSM, played a vital role in Tufts Medical Center’s Division of Nephrology. Widely known as a gifted nephrologist who brought long-term hope to seriously-ill patients, his contributions to the field of Nephrology are many. In the early 1970s, Dr. Harrington developed the hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplant programs. Another of his most notable contributions to medical education and nephrology was his leadership of the “Nephrology Forum” in Kidney International, the official journal of the International Society of Nephrology. The Forum served as an invaluable resource of information and perspective for nephrologists around the globe for over 25 years. The Dr. John T. Harrington Endowed Fund supports a mission that Dr. Harrington held near and dear – the continuous medical education of physicians, both young and more senior, on the delivery of the highest-quality care possible to patients suffering from kidney disease. Each year, the Harrington Fund supports a Visiting Professor in the Division of Nephrology to participate in the evaluation of the Division’s research training program and to speak at Grand Rounds in the Department of Medicine. In addition, the Harrington Fund can support other educational programs and initiatives within the Division, include innovative research projects that require seed funding and special patient care projects.
We are very grateful for the following Founding Gifts for the Dr. John T. Harrington Endowed Fund:
Individual Donors Mr. Thomas F. and Mrs. Mary J. Shields Mr. and Mrs. John P. Brogan Drs. Nicolaos and Ourania Madias Dr. and Mrs. Howard B. Garfinkel Dr. and Mrs. James A. Strom
Corporate/Institutional Donors Dialysis Clinic, Inc. Tufts University School of Medicine Merck & Co., Inc
1st Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2007 Nicolaos E. Madias, MD, Visiting Professor St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Shared Primacy of Sodium and Potassium in the Pathogenesis of Hypertension
2nd Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2008 Sharon Moe, MD, Visiting Professor University of Indiana Chronic Kidney Disease: Looking for Bone in All the Wrong Places
3rd Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2009 Eberhard Ritz, MD, Visiting Professor Department of Internal Medicine Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany The World Kidney Day: The Kidney and Hypertension
4th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2010 Bertram Kasiske, MD, Visiting Professor Professor of Medicine. Head of Transplant Nephrology at the University of Minnesota, Director of the Renal Division at Hennepin County Medical Center Guidelines for the Management of Kidney Transplant Patients
5th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2011 Jonathan Himmelfarb, MD, Visiting Professor Professor of Medicine, Joseph W. Eschbach Endowed Chair for Kidney Research from the University of Washington Division of Nephrology, Seattle WA Kidney Disease as a Public Health Problem: Problems, Progress, and Prospects
6th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2012 Adeera Levin, MD Visiting Professor Staff nephrologist at St. Paul’s Hospital Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. Global Burden of CKD: Challenges and Opportunities.
7th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2013 Josef Coresh, MD, PhD Visiting Professor G.W. Comstock Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Medicine Director, George W. Comstock Center for Public Health Research and Prevention and the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Program Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD Chronic Kidney Disease — A Challenge for All Ages
8th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2014 Kai-Uwe Eckardt, MD, Visiting Professor Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Getting a Handle on CKD–an Observational Approach 9th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2015 Joachim Ix, MD, MAS, FASN, Visiting Professor Chief of Nephrology and Professor of Medicine University of San Diego, California Calcium and Phosphate in Chronic Kidney Disease: Insights into their Associations with Cardiovascular Disease 10th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2016 John Gill, MD, MS, Visiting Professor Professor with Tenure Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology Research Scientist Center for Health and Evaluation and Outcome Science University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Canada Living Kidney Donation 11th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2017 Ebony Boulware, MD, MMPH, Visiting Professor Professor Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine Director, Duke Clinical and Translational Science Award Vice Dean for Translational Sciences In Search of a Magic Bullet: How Do We Get Patients the Treatments They Want? 12th Annual John T. Harrington Grand Rounds—2018 Katherine R. Tuttle, MD, FASN, FACP, Visiting Professor Executive Director of Providence Medical Research Center, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Nephrology Division at the University of Washington School of Medicine Spokane, Washington Diabetic Kidney Disease—New Targets for Treatment.
We appreciate receiving gifts in 2017 from the following:
